“You and I travel to the beat of a different drum ……… you can’t see the forest for the trees.” words written by Mike Nesmith and made famous by Linda Ronstadt who was born on this day, July 15, 1946
Dear Paul,
I offer this first draft of a letter which I suggested be given by you to me to go to the Prime Minister and which is about a large portion of my claims of human rights violations against me in Australia.
“Prime Minister,
as a newly active human rights doctor caring for Geoff Fox, who presents himself to me as the creator of Austral-Indonesian art displays in 4 Indonesian places important to four major government leaders (General Douglas MacArthur and Presidents Barak Obama, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Joko Widodo), I ask you to take seriously his claims of human rights violations by governments in Australia and their employees, including by you.
Here is a selection written by Geoff of four of his claims:
“A. In 2016 I was arrested by police and dragged through psychological hell in a family violence court as a result, to cut a long story short, of an attempt to lobby a local Labor Party councillor for memorial tree plantings.
This violated my human rights, among others, to both freedom of speech and the right to participate in government via an elected representative under Articles 19 and 21 of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights (UDHR).
B. In 2020-2021 in Victoria I believe I was falsely imprisoned in my own home along with millions of other Victorians in the most severe Coronavirus-related lockdowns of human society in the world. I believe my suffering then and the suffering of and damage to millions of other people in Locked Down Victoria has never been properly assessed.
What was done then violated my human right, among other human rights, to freedom of movement under Article 13 of UDHR.
C. In 2022, on 9/11, at the Melbourne memorial service for Queen Elisabeth The Second (my maternal grandparents attended her coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1953 on June 2nd) I was removed by police from the forecourt of St Paul’s Cathedral while I was in attempted spiritual communion invoking Bunjil with a lone aboriginal protestor and then I was personally assaulted by police in the streets in ways that were deeply hurtful to me.
This violated my human rights, among others, to freedom of religion and freedom from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under Articles 18 and 5 of UDHR.
D. On the 22nd of May 2024, in the Services Australia building in Footscray, the day before I was eligible for the aged pension, I had a nervous breakdown, collapsing to the floor howling out of frustration at a combination of bullying and/or incompetence from all but two or three of the staff there with whom i had had to deal over the preceding three weeks. The Services Australia response has lead to me being shut out from normal services and unable to complete the aged pension application. I am now at serious risk of homelessness as a result.
I believe this violates my human right, among others, to maintain a standard of living in old age adequate for housing under Article 25 of UDHR. I have made a formal complaint about the negligence of Anthony Albanese in this matter to the United Nations.“
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That is what Geoff has consistently reported to me over the course of the last three months.
It is not my job as a human rights GP to fully evaluate every detail of Geoff’s claims. They are his claims not mine. But I do have a responsibility as his GP to give him a presumption of innocence, to assess his credibility and to speak up for him if I believe that such human rights violations would damage his health and well being and to say on his behalf that he deserves a fair hearing of these claims. Under The Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006, it is my responsibility to take human rights into account with every decision I make.
I believe the effect on Geoff of what he reports above has been devastating. He reports to me that he maintained midwifery registration for 30 years from 1987 to 2018. Now his deep outrage at what he reports he has experienced over nine leaves him unable to complete an aged pension application.
So I ask you, Prime Minister, to take all his above claims seriously.
sincerely,
Doctor Paul ……..”
Paul, I decide what I want you to write for me.
But you decide what, if anything, you actually put your name to.
If you cannot back me in most of what I suggest above, then I fear you cannot continue to be my GP.
To paraphrase what Bob Dylan wrote in 1962 “Goodbye’s too good a word, doc …………”
I believe there are huge pressures on you and just about all other doctors in Australia to be both apologists for systemic human rights violations against men and also to be denialists of the seriousness of Australia’s gender suicide gap.
If I am not mistaken your work as a GP is federally funded. The clinic you work in is, as I understand it, a State Health service. That clinic has Anthony Albanese’s personal political slogan in its front window. Shame on you.
But I believe that in your heart and personality you have the makings of a very good human rights GP.
In my case the following question is crucial now:
Do you agree, as a man who holds the responsibility to care about my health and well being, that all my claims of human rights violations above refer to matters that have seriously compromised my health and well being and that serious investigations of the human rights issues involved is my right?
I await your response.
All forests are formed by trees.
Geoff Fox, July 15, 2025,Melbourne, Australia
LEFT BEHIND BY ALBANESE 